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April 2012

Morgan Spurlock's latest film may not have the mass appeal of a flick like Hunger Games -- but he still wants fans to have the chance to experience it on the big screen. The film, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope chronicles the cultural phenomenon ...

Now you can carry a digital version of Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks in your pocket. A new app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch called “iMunk: Alvin and the Chipmunks” hit the App Store Monday. It allows you to interact with the squirrel-like cre...

As several tornadoes caused significant damage Tuesday afternoon near Dallas and Fort Worth, local authorities turned to Twitter to help minimize the disruption. While the severe weather looked to be heading straight to Dallas Fort Worth airport, the...

When the Xbox Kinect came out in 2010, most people drooled over its ability to read gesture-based commands. Matterport founder Matt Bell, however, was more excited about the prospect of low-cost, high-quality 3D imaging. As a co-founder of a company ...

The Occupy Wall Street movement, long-ridiculed as being comprised of unemployed stoners, smelly hipsters and the homeless, just got a whole lot more polished with a new site simply called Occupy. The site is glossy, graphic, and easy to navigate, es...

It's primary day in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, D.C, as the four Republican candidates for president struggle for the 95 delegates up for grabs Tuesday evening. Mitt Romney is still in the delegate lead, with 572 according to The Wall Street ...

After last night's championship win, it shouldn't be too big of a surprise that the University of Kentucky was the most mentioned team on Twitter during the 2012 March Madness tournament. Email marketing provider ExactTarget has put together an infog...

A new case hitting the market soon will help owners protect a little more than their iPhone. Called “Playa case,” the iPhone case has a special compartment in the rear that can hold two condoms. Designed by Annex products, this isn't the company's fi...

Android users are rejoicing over their long-awaited admittance into the Instagram community. The app became available Tuesday for a free download in Google Play, and early adopters are already jumping at the chance to show off their photography skill...

StumbleUpon is all about discovery, and if you happen to stumble upon the company's San Francisco headquarters, you'll have plenty to see. The tailored web-crawling platform currently has more than 20 million users performing more than 1.2 billion "S...

Rumors that the Beatles would reform tantalized music fans for years after the Fab Four's breakup in 1970. Now get ready for a new round of will-they-or-won't-they whispers -- but this time about the Beatles' sons forming a band. James McCartney, son...

Instagram for Android is finally here -- which is welcome news for Android smartphone owners who waited patiently as Instagram's iOS user base rose into the millions. Will they be satisfied when they install Instagram for Android? We did a walkthroug...

Amid the fashion inspiration, advice and bookmarking apps that have wrangled for the attention of shoppers over the past two years, a few leaders are beginning to emerge. Last month, Pinterest-lookalike Fancy stepped more directly into retail by begi...

There's a lot riding on the Nokia Lumia 900. While Windows Phones until now have generally been capable if not outstanding devices, the Lumia 900 brings Microsoft's mobile platform to a new level. Not only does it add a super-fast LTE connection from...

From SOPA to Trayvon Martin, KONY 2012 to the 'Bully' movie, causes are all the rage in the social space this year. Yet many people would argue that social media campaigns lack the action component of live activism -- dubbing those who sign up for th...

For the typical land-locked folk, all one needs to learn about surfing can be found on the Wikipedia entry for surfing. The page is filled with a bulleted history, surfing physics, maneuvers, dangers, locations and of course, a photo of the correct w...

It's a beard! It's a plane! It's Brian Wilson's beard on a plane! A Virgin America aircraft that began regularly scheduled flights on Tuesday has a painted-on homage to the San Francisco Giants closer's bushy beard. And there's a social media tie-in ...

Social media platforms have motivated users to compete in a variety of ways, but can Facebook motivate users to battle with friends to earn the most energy-efficient badge of honor? The National Resource Defense Council, an international nonprofit en...

"just woke up. lets do this Q&A before i get on my video games lol" That's how famed basketball star Jeremy Lin began his online Facebook Q&A just hours after undergoing knee surgery. As of this writing, nearly 50,000 people had liked the status upda...

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Ahead of the 2012 New York International Auto Show, Porsche introduced on Tuesday its first diesel-powered vehicle to the U.S. market, as well as the latest model in its ultra-sleek Boxster sports car line. The Cayenne Diesel SUV -- which will debut ...

You may be close to reaching saturation when it comes to news about Sprint's LTE network and the first phones that will operate on it; at least, it's certainly seemed like a good portion of the news and rumors we've been looking into lately have deal...

Fisker has unveiled a new electric hybrid car at the New York Auto Show, the Fisker Atlantic luxury sedan. Unlike Fisker's all-electric supercar, the Fisker Karma, the Atlantic is a far more conventional affair, though the details are still very scar...

Welcome to this morning’s edition of “First To Know,” a series in which we keep you in the know on what’s happening in the digital world. Today, we’re looking at three particularly interesting stories. Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Delayed Until End of April ...

As expected, the long-awaited Instagram for Android has proved to be a big hit, netting more than 1 million downloads before the app had been out for 24 hours. Stats from Google Play peg the number of downloads between 1 million and 5 million, a wide...

Android's share of the U.S. smartphone market topped 50% for the first time in February, according to comScore's MobiLens. The figures were a 17-point increase over February 2011. Apple's share for iOS for the month was 30.2%, which was up five point...

You'll soon be able to rent nearly 500 Paramount Pictures films via YouTube and Google Play, thanks to a newly signed licensing agreement between the two companies. Many of those films, including The Godfather trilogy, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Hu...

The first true "alien Earth" will likely be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. Astronomers have found more than 750 alien planets to date, and NASA's Kepler Space Telescope has flagged 2,300 additional "candidates" awaiting conf...

Attention ladies: This handsome fellow is apparently edging out Scumbag Steve and Futurama's Philip J. Fry as the meme du jour. "Ridiculously Photogenic Guy" as he's known, began popping up on Reddit Tuesday as far as we could tell. By Wednesday morn...

Yahoo on Wednesday confirmed that it was laying off 2,000 employees in an effort to make the company "smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require." "We are intensifying our effor...

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